He implies in his 1946 philosophical tract "Existentialism is a Humanism" that his philosophy was rooted ultimately in Dostoevsky's dictum of "If God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted" (which referred to the events of the Russian Nihilist movement), in particular trying to actually make everything permitted. His philosophy was also considered subversive enough that [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the head of the FBI at the time, ended up spying on both Sartre himself and his associate [[Albert Camus]] to see if they had any ties to the Communist Party as well as whether they were planning any subversive actions in society.<ref>http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/camus-sartre-fbi-hoover</ref> Sartre was also known to misdefine "[[violence]]" to essentially mean "any social position [Sartre] doesn't like," which Thomas Sowell indicated was so he'd have an excuse to condone if not instigate actual violence, essentially making him responsible for [[microaggression]]s and thus promoting [[cancel culture]].<ref>https://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jun/16/micro-aggression-efforts-silence-dissenters/</ref> | He implies in his 1946 philosophical tract "Existentialism is a Humanism" that his philosophy was rooted ultimately in Dostoevsky's dictum of "If God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted" (which referred to the events of the Russian Nihilist movement), in particular trying to actually make everything permitted. His philosophy was also considered subversive enough that [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the head of the FBI at the time, ended up spying on both Sartre himself and his associate [[Albert Camus]] to see if they had any ties to the Communist Party as well as whether they were planning any subversive actions in society.<ref>http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/camus-sartre-fbi-hoover</ref> Sartre was also known to misdefine "[[violence]]" to essentially mean "any social position [Sartre] doesn't like," which Thomas Sowell indicated was so he'd have an excuse to condone if not instigate actual violence, essentially making him responsible for [[microaggression]]s and thus promoting [[cancel culture]].<ref>https://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jun/16/micro-aggression-efforts-silence-dissenters/</ref> |